{"id":577,"date":"2007-11-06T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/06\/more-misleading-car-commercials\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:43:53","slug":"more-misleading-car-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/more-misleading-car-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"More misleading car commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know, I really don&#8217;t mind those ads touting their super sales event, or the ones with the cartoon animals or people telling you how you should trust this dealer (hey, people, you&#8217;re being asked to trust a non-existing artistic construct!)&#8230;&nbsp; But then we get to the Ford commercials.&nbsp; Paraphrased as exactly as possible, they go:<\/p>\n<p>We lied to thousands of Americans that we were doing &#8220;market research&#8221; to get them to try our cars.&nbsp; Twenty of them fell for it and could be bribed to talk, on camera, about how much they preferred our vehicle.&nbsp; We now present these patsies as evidence of how good our cars are, and we&#8217;re not about to tell you how many of them actually bought a Ford or how much we paid them to do this commercial &#8212; or for that matter, whether they are actually paid actors.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love truth in advertising???<\/p>\n<p>If so, don&#8217;t buy a Ford.&nbsp; (Note: This is not a statement on the quality of Ford vehicles, merely that of Ford commercials.)<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know, I really don&#8217;t mind those ads touting their super sales event, or the ones with the cartoon animals or people telling you how you should trust this dealer (hey, people, you&#8217;re being asked to trust a non-existing artistic construct!)&#8230;&nbsp; But then we get to the Ford commercials.&nbsp; Paraphrased as exactly as possible, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}